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Title: When A Third Becomes 97 Percent: A Con That Changed the Western World
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... ced-lie-changed-western-world/
Published: May 21, 2016
Author: Steven Capozzola
Post Date: 2016-05-21 11:55:45 by cranky
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Views: 871
Comments: 1
But the “97 percent of scientists believe in global warming” mantra became gospel on May 16, 2013, when President Obama tweeted “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made, and dangerous.” What the president was referring to was a 2013 paper by the University of Queensland’s John Cook. In his research, Cook studied 11,994 papers published between 1991 and 2011 that mentioned the search words “global warming” and “global climate change.” Guess what Cook actually found? Only 32.6 percent of the papers endorsed the view of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. But of that group, 97 percent said that “recent warming is mostly man-made.” And so, by a nice sleight-of-hand obfuscation, the great “97 percent consensus” was born. Don’t believe me? Check out the actual paper, or the abstract, or the original article. In fact, let’s just say thank goodness that the originals are still posted online. Typically, when someone pulls off a con of such massive, world-wide proportions, they subsequently burn the evidence to cover their tracks. Still don’t believe me? Here’s the actual, posted statement: We find that 66.4 percent of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6 percent endorsed AGW, 0.7 percent rejected AGW and 0.3 percent were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1 percent endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. Bottom line: In the actual study in question, only one-third of the 11,994 academic papers studied could be construed as arguing for man-made warming. The other two-thirds may have focused on other factors, perhaps the unprecedented increase in solar activity seen over the past century. Regardless, the big lie has taken hold, and is now being used to push for “decarbonization” polices, and to silence critics of “global warming.” 
You’ve probably heard that 97 percent of scientists say global warming is real. Of course, that in itself is a meaningless statement, since no one disputes that the earth has warmed by roughly 0.8 degrees Celsius over the past century or so.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
whether a third agree or 97% agree, the real point is we are in a situation over which we have no control. The popular idea that we can stop, or reverse, AGW, if it exists, is rediculous. If all carbon emissions cease immediately the effect would continue for the next century, so perhaps it is time to reflect on what is actually causing the observed changes which are, just to remind us; glacial melting, warmer than average temperatures in some places, seasional variation. Such changes have been occuring for the last 10,000 years, which begs the question; how did they begin?
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